This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program will provide $599,980 to Michigan State University to address issues with the current scientific communication process. The project aims to remove financial barriers, build community-based review processes, and develop open metrics for research assessment. It will implement a "publish-review-curate-assess" workflow across seven community testbeds,...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure awarded a $275,055 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to assess the viability of a "diamond open access" model for transitioning STEM and HSS journals from a subscription-based to a sustainable open access publishing framework. The grant aims to "flip" two currently subscription-based...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $299,474 Project Grant to Code For Science And Society, Inc., a non-profit organization, under the NSF Division of Social and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The 2-year grant, awarded on August 1, 2023, supports a research project to examine social movements on university campuses in the U.S. and Canada during 2012-2018. The project will construct a quantitative dataset of higher education social movements and university responses, using...
This $212,791 federal Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program. The grant supports research aimed at understanding the incentives and constraints that influence scientists' willingness to pursue high-risk, high-return research projects. The researchers will develop and analyze mathematical models to examine how scientific norms, publication practices, and other factors impact scientists'...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $116,450 Project Grant to Metadata Game Changers LLC on Aug 1, 2023 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program. This funding supports a project titled "EAGER: INFORMATE: IMPROVING NETWORKS FOR ORGANIZATIONAL REPOSITORIES THROUGH METADATA AUGMENTATION, TRANSFORMATION AND EVOLUTION" that seeks to analyze the scientific communication ecosystem, including how federal research funding impact is measured in...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure awarded a $792,866 Project Grant to The Johns Hopkins University under the CFDA Program 47.070 - Computer and Information Science and Engineering. The grant supports the "Open SciServer" project, which aims to transition the existing SciServer data-driven science platform to an open-source, sustainable model. Key activities include migrating the codebase to open-source, enhancing administrative functions,...
This Project Grant award, valued at $299,776.00, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program. The funding supports the creation of an open digital research notebook ecosystem called "Knowledger" to enable new ways for researchers across disciplines to record data, connect with online resources, and manage research data. The project aims to develop a suite of components for the open Knowledger...
This $500,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) aims to enhance the accessibility and functionality of the arXiv open-access research repository. The key products and services being delivered include: Developing new search and recommendation capabilities to improve discovery and utilization of arXiv's over 2 million scientific papers across disciplines like computer science, mathematics, and...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $393,370 supports the development of EditionCrafter, an open-source digital publication tool for the history of science and technology. Awarded on August 1, 2022 with a completion date of July 31, 2024, the funding is provided through the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The awardee, Columbia University, will develop EditionCrafter to integrate digitized technical manuscripts with original research such as...
This Project Grant award of $100,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to address challenges in broadening participation in open science practices. The award will fund a multi-day workshop, known as an "Ideas Lab", that brings together representatives from a diverse array of research institutions. The goal is to ensure that the evolving infrastructure, norms, and rewards promoting open science equally benefit the entire research...